Another Stormy Voyage.

The biggest gale of Captain Bowling's experience, writes Mr. Basil Lubbock, in his book "Colonial Clippers," was in 1904. The ship sailed from Sydney on August 27, loaded with wheat for Queenstown. Caught in a Cape Horn snorter, her cargo shifted to port, her port bulwarks were carried away, and for some time she lay on her beam ends. Eventually she righted and continued her passage, but on December 8, in the Atlantic, she again ran into heavy weather, during which a huge mountain of water broke over the port quarter and swept the decks the whole length of her. The water flooded below, breaking into the saloon and cabins, the sail locker, the lazarette, and even into the 'tween decks; the companion hatch on the poop was carried away, and along with it went both compasses, stands, and binnacles, side lights and screens, the patent log from the taffrail—in fact, pretty nearly everything on the decks except the wheel.

All hands worked hard in bailing out the water from below, which was up to one's waist in the cabin. During the night the ship was rolling heavily as she ran before the gale. Early the next morning a big sea washed out the carpenter's quarters, and "Chips," under the impression that the ship was sinking by the head, made the best of his way aft. Captain Bowling and his officers were all below clearing up the wrecked cabin. The carpenter thereupon informed the man at the wheel of his fears, with, the result that the latter had an attack of nerves, thought he was running the ship under, and allowed her to come-to.